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Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his...
The issue thus drawn between President Roosevelt and Mr. Ford seemed to involve much more than just the automobile industry's code. It was the first clean-cut major encounter between the new "robust collectivism" and a prime exponent of the old "rugged individualism." Mr. Ford had supported President...
1) Barred the labor of children under 16 except if they are able to deliver newspapers without impairment of health and if their work does not interfere with school hours. Children between 14 and 16 were not to work more than three hours a day (between 7 a. m. and...
Good judges here believe that the president will put his program across. The country is with him and wanting leadership. It dimly realizes that purchasing power must catch up with production, and will take a chance. And when it is all over, whether it succeeds or fails, those rugged Now...
From the rugged Kirghiz steppes they came, from the Hi River basin, from the trackless plains of sprawling Russia and from Moscow. Bigwigs of the Soviet Union, turbanned Kazaks. soldiers of the Red Army, peasants and nomads all came to "Big Bill" Shatov's party. Big Bill had just...